The Money Plane

Gale Soderstrom was blasted from the sky by a SAM missile and then plucked from a North Vietnamese jungle by a rescue helicopter crew. The experience left him with a lifetime of painful memories and nightmares he never wanted to share, secret nightmares that tormented him. The crew of the rescue helicopter came back into his life years later when, by chance, he discovered they were involved in the theft of $15,000,000 in Federal Reserve Notes from a Boeing 727 waiting in the fog at San Francisco International Airport. Gale, an airline pilot nearing retirement, became obsessed with finding the money, twisting Dostoyevsky’s premise in Crime and Punishment that stolen money used for a good purpose negates the crime. Confronting his nightmares, Gale recalled a quote from Bob Dylan: “Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.”